Blog Creation, Readership Rise in 2004
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The first line of a brief
article on blog readership.
Twenty-seven percent
of online adults in the United States said in November they read blogs,
compared with 17 percent in a February survey by the Pew Internet and American
Life Project.
Earlier in the year, politics was what
drove readers to blogs.
Though blog readership jumped, the percentage
of online Americans who write blogs grew only slightly - to 7 percent in
November, up from 5 percent early in the year. Blog creators tend to be
male, affluent, well-educated and young; 70 percent of them have high-speed
connections at home, and 82 percent have been online at least six years.
Despite the attention to blogging, a
large number of Americans remain clueless - only 38 percent of Internet
users know what a blog is: online agglomerations of ideas, information
and links, usually presented with the most recent postings on top, and
often offering a mechanism for visitors to post comments.
Software tools developed in recent years
have made blogs easier to create and maintain.
Are you finding use of all these Domino
blogs? Do you get value out of the daily postings all over? Do
you use RSS exclusively?
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On Monday, January 3rd, 2005 by Chris Miller
